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Novels may teach us as wholesome a moral as the pulpit. There are sermons in stones, in healthy books, and good in everything.
Charles Caleb Colton
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Charles Caleb Colton
Died: 1832
Died: January 1
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Injuries accompanied with insults are never forgiven: all men, on these occasions, are good haters, and lay out their revenge at compound interest.
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The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world.
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It is much easier to ruin a man of principle than a man of none, for he may be ruined through his scruples. Knavery is supple and can bend but honesty is firm and upright, and yields not.
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We shall at all times chance upon men of recondite acquirements, but whose qualifications, from the incommunicative and inactive habits of their owners, are as utterly useless to others as though the possessors had them not.
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It is better to have wisdom without learning than learning without wisdom.
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Secrecy is the soul of all great designs.
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The most ridiculous of all animals is a proud priest he cannot use his own tools without cutting his own fingers.
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It is an easy and vulgar thing to please the mob, and no very arduous task to astonish them.
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It is far more easy to acquire a fortune like a knave, than to expend it, like a gentleman.
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A coxcomb begins by determining that his own profession is the first and he finishes by deciding that he is the first of profession.
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God is on the side of virtue for whoever dreads punishment suffers it, and whoever deserves it, dreads it .
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Hope is a prodigal young heir, and Experience is his banker but his drafts are seldom honoured, since there is often a heavy balance against him, because he draws largely on a small capital, is not yet in possession, and if he were, would die.
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Precisely in proportion to our own intellectual weakness will be our credulity as to those mysterious powers assumed by others.
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Bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret.
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If merited, no courage can stand against its just indignation.
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Women generally consider consequences in love, seldom in resentment.
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In all places, and in all times, those religionists who have believed too much have been more inclined to violence and persecution than those who have believed too little.
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Happiness is that single and glorious thing which is the very light and sun of the whole animated universe and where she is not it were better that nothing should be.
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Like the rainbow, peace rests upon the earth, but its arch is lost in heaven. Heaven bathes it in hues of light--it springs up amid tears and clouds--it is a reflection of the eternal sun--it is an assurance of calm--it is the sign of a great covenant between God and man--it is an emanation from the distant orb of immortal light.
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Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife, unless the one is about to be sold, the other to be buried.
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